in this paper, the staff assignment problem considering cross-training of caregivers in health care systems is addressed to determine which staff should be cross-trained for each service and how they should be assigned to services. a bi-objective non-linear mathematical programming model is presented where the first objective function aims to minimize workload balancing, cross-training as well ...

This paper develops a decentralized leader-follower game for network design of a competitive supply chain problem in which a new chain as the leader enters a market with one existing supply chain as a follower. Both chains produce an identical product, customer demand is inelastic and customer utility function is based on Huff gravity-based model. The leader wants to shape his network and set a...

nowadays, the environmental impact of transportation project and, especially air pollution impacts, are major concerns in evaluating transportation projects. based on this concern, beside definition of traditional objective functions like total travel time and total investment cost, different type of environmental related function is considered as objective function in urban network design. in ...

This paper deals with fuzzy goal programming approach to quadratic bi-level multi-objective programming problem involving a single decision maker with multiple objectives at the upper level and a single decision maker with multiple objectives at the lower level. The objective functions of each level decision maker are quadratic in nature and the system constraints are linear functions. In the m...

Port–hinterland container logistics transportation systems (PHCLTSs) are significant to economic and social development. However, various kinds of unconventional emergency events (UEEs), such as natural or human-caused disasters, threaten PHCLTSs. This study aims measure improve the resilience Bi-level programming models with two different lower level established help PHCLTSs recover their capa...

This paper presents fuzzy goal programming approach to quadratic bi-level programming problem. In the model formulation of the problem, we construct the quadratic membership functions by determining individual best solutions of the quadratic objective functions subject to the system constraints. The quadratic membership functions are then transformed into equivalent linear membership functions ...

This paper presents fuzzy goal programming approach for bilevel linear fractional programming problem with a single decision maker at the upper level and a single decision maker at the lower level. Here, each level has single objective function, which are fractional in nature and the system constraints are linear functions. In the proposed approach, we first construct fractional membership func...

This paper proposes a fuzzy goal programming based on Taylor series for solving decentralized bilevel multiobjective fractional programming (DBLMOFP) problem. In the proposed approach, all of the membership functions are associated with the fuzzy goals of each objective at the both levels and also the fractional membership functions are converted to linear functions using the Taylor series appr...